Amelia Rock

I am a DPhil student supervised by Prof. Dejan Draschkow and Prof. Sage Boettcher, funded through the Brasenose Psychology Studentship.

My research focuses on how cognitive processes are recruited and flexibly coordinated for adaptive behaviour in naturalistic, real-world contexts. I am particularly interested in memory and attention, and how these mechanisms manifest in both clinical and subclinical populations, as well as across lifespan. 

I hold a BA in Experimental Psychology (First Class Honours) from the University of Oxford. During my studies, I was awarded the BPS Undergraduate Research Assistantship to work across Prof. Kia Nobre’s Brain and Cognition Lab and Prof. Kate Watkins’s Brain, Speech, and Language Group, where I gained experience with a range of neuroimaging and behavioural methods, including MEG, MRI, EEG, and eye-tracking. Following my studies, I worked as a clinical research intern at the Institute for Mind and Brain in Kerala, India, where I conducted patient interviews and a research project investigating informational needs of patients seeking mental health care. I then worked as a research assistant in Prof. Robert Hepach’s Social Foundations Lab, using virtual reality to investigate prosocial behaviour in children—work I presented at the 2025 BPS Social Psychology Conference.